Making sense of childcare instability among families with low incomes:(Un) desired and (un) planned reasons for changing childcare arrangements

AR Pilarz, H Sandstrom, JR Henly - RSF: The Russell Sage …, 2022 - rsfjournal.org
Childcare instability can negatively affect family well-being. Yet not all childcare changes are
bad for families. This qualitative study (N= 85) examines work, family, provider, and subsidy …

Is stability always a good thing? Low-income mothers' experiences with child care transitions

KE Speirs, CK Vesely, K Roy - Children and Youth Services Review, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent research has drawn attention to the deleterious effects of instability on child
development. In particular, child care instability may make it hard for children to form secure …

Time for a change? Predictors of child care changes by low-income families

EE Davis, CS Carlin, C Krafft, K Tout - Journal of Children and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Instability in child care arrangements can negatively affect children's development,
especially in low-income families. However, few studies have examined what predicts …

Child-care instability and the effort to sustain a working daily routine: Evidence from the new hope ethnographic study of low-income families

ED Lowe, TS Weisner, S Geis… - Developmental Pathways …, 2006 - taylorfrancis.com
It has never been easy for contemporary parents in the United States to organize stable child
care while working, harder for single parents, and harder still for low-income families. Stable …

Child‐care instability and behavior problems: Does parenting stress mediate the relationship?

AR Pilarz, HD Hill - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Child‐care instability is associated with more behavior problems in young children, but the
mechanisms of this relationship are not well understood. Theoretically, this relationship is …

Instability in patchworks of child care when moving from welfare to work

EK Scott, AS London, A Hurst - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We use longitudinal, qualitative interview data collected from 38 initially welfare‐reliant
women in Cleveland, Ohio to examine the factors driving instability in child‐care …

Unstable and multiple child care arrangements and young children's behavior

AR Pilarz, HD Hill - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2014 - Elsevier
Growing evidence suggests that child care instability is associated with child behavior
problems, but existing studies confound different types of instability; use small, convenience …

Understanding the relationship between instability in child care and instability in employment for families with subsidized care

EK Scott, MJ Abelson - Journal of Family Issues, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Through the federal child care funding and unspent Temporary Assistance to Needy
Families funds, states provide subsidies for child care to some employed parents who are …

[BOOK][B] How contextual constraints affect low-income working parents' child care choices

H Sandstrom, L Giesen, A Chaudry - 2012 - academia.edu
Most working families with children in the United States face the constant challenge of
arranging child care. An estimated 11.3 million children younger than 5 years old have …

[BOOK][B] Measurement of child care arrangement stability: A review and case study using Oregon child care subsidy data

RB Weber - 2005 - search.proquest.com
Child care stability affects child and family outcomes. Stability reflects the time dimension of
a child care arrangement. Although stability does not guarantee positive outcomes …